Famous quotes containing the words mystical and/or traditions:
“Gravity is a kind of mystical behavior in the body, invented to conceal the defects of the mind.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (16131680)
“And all the great traditions of the Past
They saw reflected in the coming time.
And thus forever with reverted look
The mystic volume of the world they read,
Spelling it backward, like a Hebrew book,
Till life became a Legend of the Dead.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18091882)